One reason to fear Arkansas' offense: QB Ryan Mallett has thrown for nearly 3,000 yards and 24 touchdowns with only eight interceptions.

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Brandon Marcello
bmarcello@clarionledger.com

Forgive Manny Diaz for having a flashback this week while preparing for Arkansas' offense.

Mississippi State's defensive coordinator has been through this before in 2006 at Middle Tennessee State, where he was in his first year as its coordinator and was dissecting film of Bobby Petrino's offense at Louisville.

"That was probably the only game going in that I was afraid we were going to have 100 points scored on us," Diaz said. "I thought they were so good on offense." ...